After winning a special Jury prize in Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival 2023, National Award-winning filmmaker Sarvnik Kaur’s internationally acclaimed documentary feature Against The Tide is making its South Asian premiere at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023 which taking place from Oct 27 to Nov 05 2023.
Against The Tide is the only documentary selected among 14 features in the South Asia Competition section
The film which premiered in World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance has won eight awards including UN Perception Change Award at Visions du Réel 2023, Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition at Seattle IFF 2023, Sustainable Future Award at Sydney IFF 2023 and Best Feature Award at Ice Docs 2023. It recently won Best Documentary at International South Asian Film Festival Canada and is also nominated for Asian Pacific Screen Award (APSA) for Best Documentary Feature.
The 97 minute film in Koli, Marathi, Hindi language is about Two friends, both indigenous Koli Fishermen in Mumbai, who are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.
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Ajay KR
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